We didn't know what this guy would become, which, for a time, was one of the top hitters in baseball. Eventually, he'd become a World Series Champ as well; a San Francisco icon (who scootered on city streets to games and connected with fans in a way that 99% of players don't); and now, a post-playing career podcaster on The Athletic.
He was certainly one of my favorite players during his era, but he wasn't a first-choice pick for me to build a player collection of. Yet I seem to have stumbled into a Pence player collection anyway, and now I'm all-in. I probably have less than 30 cards of the guy's, but here are ten of them that give you a good sense of the man/myth/legend.
There's an interesting YouTube video on his late-career comeback that I enjoyed.
ReplyDeleteI watched that on our local sports channel here; I enjoyed it as well. He really raked for Texas in 2019 so it was a drag that he couldn't keep it going during the pandemic year.
DeleteThat 2015 Chrome card is sweet! I need to track down a refractor version of that card. As for Hunter... it's hard not to like the guy. He had a likable personality and played hard.
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